Civilization Changes Man On The Outside. Meditation

We Usually Do Not Look Into What Is Really There In Front Of Us. We See Life Through A Screen Of Thoughts And Concepts, And We Mistake Those Mental Objects For Reality. We Get So Caught Up In This Endless Thought-stream That Reality Flows By Unnoticed. We Spend Our Time Engrossed In Activity, Caught Up In An Eternal Flight From Pain And Unpleasantness. We Spend Our Energies Trying To Make Ourselves Feel Better, Trying To Bury Our Fears. We Are Endlessly Seeking Security. Meanwhile, The World Of Real Experience Flows By Untouched And Untasted.

[m]orality Is Not A Ritualistic Obedience To A Code Of Behavior Imposed By An External Authority. It Is Rather A Healthy Habit Pattern That You Have Consciously And Voluntarily Chosen To Impose Upon Yourself Because You Recognize Its Superiority To Your Present Behavior.

The Brain Does Not Manufacture Thoughts Unless We Stimulate It With Habitual Verbalizing. When We Train Ourselves By Constant Practice To Stop Verbalizing, The Brain Can Experience Things As They Are.

Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Not.

Mindfulness Helps Us Freeze The Frame So That We Can Become Aware Of Our Sensations And Experiences As They Are, Without The Distorting Coloration Of Socially Conditioned Responses Or Habitual Reactions.